>>44456591>trade evo in gen 2 requiring an item everyone used on Onix instead, unless you were autistic and got the second one from spamming thief on Magnemite; no trainers use it ingame either because Gamefreak doesn’t give a shit about gen 2 pokemon>literally nowhere in gen 3; even in Fire red no trainers use it>nobody using it in tournaments and such either because all the way through DP it was a shitmon>suddenly all over the meta in Gen 4 aka the “cross gen evo” generation, thanks to gaining Bullet punch in Plat>Gen 4 also when people started talking about competitive stuff more To be fair, I can kind of see why he’d think that. If all you paid attention to were the games themselves, it would fly under the radar.
